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You know what that means. Monday Night Football. We got the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
We got the Kansas City Chiefs. And Taylor Swift is in the building. And how would I know that? Because they let me know. I don't know. Why not?
Great marketing, right? And of course, the first person they show outside of her is Travis Kelce. And then Patrick Mahomes.
Just the reality of it. Anyway, we'll keep you up to date on this Monday Night Football matchup as it gets going. We know Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers on a two game losing streak. There's no Chris Godwin with that ankle injury or broken ankle.
There's no Mike Evans with that hamstring. And the Kansas City Chiefs, they are a 7-0. Nobody else walking around undefeated like them. They're 7-0. They're trying to go for their third consecutive championship.
The first time that we have seen this, or maybe we'll see it in the Super Bowl era. If you want to be a part of the show, it's simple. We got a phone number. It works 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. You can find me online.
I am everywhere at JR Sport Brief. What a show we've had already. If you want to think about the Kansas City Chiefs and just think about the division that they compete in, the AFC West. You've got a couple of teams that have done some things.
How about this? Their rival, the Raiders, they fire their offensive coordinator. The Saints, they fire their head coach and David Allen.
He's gone. Dallas Cowboys, we talked about this earlier. Dak Prescott out indefinitely with a hamstring issue.
That means the Cowboys are done. Talked about some of these college football upsets and some of the teams that have risen in the ranks. Pete Feudetek is going to join us next hour at collegefootballnews.com to take a deeper dive into everything going on in the world of college football. We talked about Greg Popovich, unfortunately, dealing with an undisclosed illness.
He's going to be away from the San Antonio Spurs indefinitely. And then right before the break, there's always contenders and pretenders. And we got two teams that are, I'd say, middle of the road, even though they're going in opposite directions. The Rams and the Seahawks, they played a good game yesterday, a win into overtime. Demarcus Robinson holds in a touchdown to win the game for the Rams. The Rams improved to four and four, the Seahawks four and five. So we have done a lot so far this show. Hit rewind on the free Odyssey app and now we're getting ready for this Monday night football matchup.
And as I look up on the screen, besides looking at Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. Hickey, how many? How many impersonators? Can you have in one building of Andy Reid before it just gets a little too much? I would say more than one. How many people you think in the address is Andy Reid, 200 people? Now, that might be too many, right? I don't know. Arrowhead holds what, about 65,000, right?
I feel like 200 is accurate. And they all want to be on TV? What do they just, let me grow out a mustache, put on a ball cap, and then what?
Put on a headset and there I have it. Is that it? Yeah, that's really it. Just got to be fat with a mustache. Fat with a, no. A walrus mustache. A walrus mustache and you need a headset and some Chief Skier.
Part of the reason why it gets old quick, it's not, you know, it's not difficult to do. What, to be fat and grow a walrus mustache? Exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Eat a few cheeseburgers. Oh, ouch. Shave around the beard area and now you can be on TV. Yeah, it's much. They just highlighted somebody on ESPN that, I think Jason Kelsey walked over and said, here, here are some of his real, Andy Reid's real mustache whiskers. And I'm like, okay, all right. If you say so, I don't know if I want the man's whiskers out of his face, but okay, yeah, sure. Wait, what? He had like actual Andy Reid mustache hairs? Whiskers?
I don't know where he'd get them from, but he gave him a Ziploc bag that just said Andy's whiskers. Oh. What? That's gross.
Well, you think Andy Reid sat there and clipped them for this guy? I don't think so. I don't know. I mean, where else did they get, if it's real, where else did they get them from? It's fake.
Got to be fake. Come on. Sell hair.
Who wants? Well, people, people do. I was just going to say, no, people, there's definitely a market for it.
And people bought what? For Andy Reid's hair? Maybe not his specific, well, I mean, sure. I bet you a bunch of cheese. I mean, a bunch of those guys, I'm sure if they said, hey, you want Andy Reid's, you know, freshly clipped facial hair.
I bet you more people than you would like to know would say yes. Give me some. Oh, what do you want?
Put it in my display case. Oh, no. Well, he handed it to that impersonator, so I don't know. Maybe the guy will stitch it to his face and he'll become like Andy Reid. Now I'm truly Andy Reid with his DNA on me.
Oh, no more Andy Reid's. There's not there's not even anybody else for people to impersonate, right? Nobody else is that discernible. He has quite a unique look. I don't think there's another NFL head coach that stands out quite the way he does.
Well, anyway, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven as eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I wish I wish I could say tonight's game was was like something. But when Mike Evans went down and then Godwin went down or Mike Evans and Godwin. Yeah, with that just awful leg injury, we learned a buck season is just about done from there. Since then, they've been on a two game losing streak. They lost to Atlanta, they lost to Baltimore. That was that awful game where the injuries took place in a box and not going anywhere. The Falcons now have a record of six and three.
There should be absolutely no reason that they don't win the NFC South and the Bucks are just trying to stay alive. And Baker Mayfield is now in such a space where he has to throw the ball around so damn much that that his own head coach, Todd Bowles, is asking him, Bruh, just stop giving a ball away to the other team. But what do you want him to do?
He's missing his pieces. Listen to Todd Bowles. I mean, the numbers are great, but the turnovers are important. You've got to keep the turnovers down and keep the numbers up. You can cut that out.
It'll be a great year. That's a little bit of everything. Sometimes it's the route, sometimes it's forcing it, sometimes it's the line, and sometimes at the end of the game you've got to throw it. But we can't turn it over, especially on the plus side of the field. Over his past few games, Baker Mayfield is leading the NFL in touchdowns thrown with 21. He ain't going to hold onto that with no Godwin and no Mike Evans sitting around. Over his past few games, against Atlanta, two interceptions. Against Baltimore, the two interceptions. And their last victory against New Orleans, three interceptions. Now, if you want to get at him for airing a ball out in a game that they won 51 to 27, I get it. But taking on Baltimore and Atlanta without his two top weapons, I would give him just a little bit of a break. Baker Mayfield is like a man on an island trying to find, well, there ain't too much he can find. You don't miss two all-pro talents and just continue to have success. It's difficult as hell, man.
It's nuts. Even so, Andy Reid, always the nice guy. Coach has got to butter up the competition. Andy Reid talked about, hey, the Bucks can't wait to face them. I look forward to the challenge of playing Tampa Bay. They're a heck of a football team and, you know, well coached.
And so I look forward to bringing them in here to G.E.H. Field Arrowhead Stadium. And I know we'll have a great crowd there. Oh, yeah, they'll have a great crowd.
Full of Andy Reid look-alikes. Hickey, what's the score tonight? I don't know, 30 to 20? I feel like it'll be a lower-scoring game. I think both defenses have success. I'll say 20.
I feel like if the rain could keep it kind of close, I'm going to say 24-20. Chiefs win, but I think the Bucks do, they do impress you, I think, in this game. Okay. Well, I give them credit for not quitting. That much I give them credit for. And then on the other hand, it's kind of crazy.
We talked about this earlier in the show. You take a look at a couple of the quarterbacks who are leading the way when it comes down to MVP conversation. Lamar Jackson, Jared Goff, ridiculous efficiency right now. And the people are really looking at Patrick Mahomes and going, Bruh, what you doing? He has eight touchdowns to nine interceptions this year.
We know Rasheed Rice is going down. Juju Smith-Schuster has been knocked around. They just brought in DeAndre Hopkins.
This is going to be his second game. There's nothing, nothing has been easy for the Chiefs offense this year. And to think that Patrick Mahomes is now all of a sudden some type of bum is just, it's hilarious to me. And Patrick Mahomes, he talked about DeAndre Hopkins, even though he just showed up and he just started practicing. Whenever you're able to put them in there, obviously, we're going to be able to hit some throws down the field. I think hitting him kind of over that medium to long range is going to open up other guys down the field and take pressure off other guys as far as eyes and coverage.
And at the same time, let's also keep this in mind. Todd Bowles is not stupid. He knows that despite the numbers or whatever Patrick Mahomes is doing or not doing, this is still the best quarterback in the NFL. And so Todd Bowles, in the most unenthusiastic way possible, he let everybody know we still have to stop Patrick Mahomes. No duh. The athletic ability has us unquestioned anyway with his arm and his legs, but he can see the game. It comes easy to him.
So he makes all 11 guys play honest and be on their a game the beach and to beat them. Yeah. Thank you. They should have flex. It's too late.
I mean, you can't you can't. How much time do you need to flex the game a week? I think from Monday night and is it two or three weeks? I mean, you need definitely a lot longer time. You're changing the day. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right.
They should. I don't know. Are we done with those stupid ass double headers on Monday?
Are we done with that crap? I think so. Oh, I feel pretty confident saying that. So at least that's a win. This is the type of night.
And who knows? He had a game might be competitive. You know, the Tampa Bay will throw the ball around enough unless it's a blowout. I think to still be in the game, Kate Otten is going to end up with a lot of targets.
I just it sucks when you have a game and you know that the stars are done. Literally, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the two biggest stars on the team, happen to be their wide receivers. And one is sitting in this with a foot in the cast. And you would think, Mike Evans, he's getting his leg massage right now, right? Big time.
Twenty four seven. Yeah. Yeah, I got I got Kansas City at this point of the season. And just based on what we might see the rest of the year when it comes to Kansas City, it's just seeing how their offense can grow, seeing if they can go the rest of the season undefeated, which is highly unlikely. And then if you take a look at the Kansas City Chiefs schedule the rest of the way, let's look at this. And it's hard to say any given Sunday.
It's still a lot left to go. They got Tampa Bay, Denver. Not going to be easy. Buffalo not going to be easy. They have Carolina. OK, Las Vegas, the Chargers, Cleveland, Houston, Pittsburgh, Denver. You would think out of all the teams that they face, you know, Buffalo is going to be their stiffest competition, followed probably by the Chargers and then Houston. If Houston later in the year can get healthy, Pittsburgh is not going to be an easy team to move the hell up on out the way. And so, no, I don't anticipate the Chiefs going through the season undefeated.
But I'll tell you this. One loss, two losses. They're still going to be in competition for Super Bowl. Let's see what they do tonight.
And maybe the Bucks can surprise everybody. Possibly. Maybe eight, five, five, two, one, two, forty, two, twenty seven. That's eight, five, five, two, one, two, forty, two, twenty seven. Lee is calling from Cincinnati.
You're on the J.R. sport. We show us ugly. We didn't call in too early. I just want to say real quick, I want to get your perception on how poor to play to get Georgia, because I just want to know, you think Napier's going to save his job because of this? No, I still think this guy is eventually going to get the boot.
And I think the only thing that will probably keep him in his current job is the fact that if they wanted to fire him, they'd have to owe him about twenty six million dollars. But so but here's the thing. Gators are still playing hard for him. They they they're they've lost their top quarterback, you know, it's a lag when they try to correct. Yeah.
Well, we still have more. What I'm telling you is this is what I'm telling you. Ask me and I'm answering you. The only way that I believe and the biggest reason I believe that they will keep him around is because if they give him the boot, they will owe him about twenty six million dollars. Is it so you don't think he's the best voice as coach for them? But they need somebody else. Well, I don't know who else.
I mean, you've been calling me for like three months telling me that they need to get some guy from Ole Miss who can't even get over to hump himself. And so I'm not. Yeah. You like you ask. So how many different ways you ask me the same question every week?
Well, that's very true. Yeah, it is. I think you remember me. Yeah, I do. Because you're the only guy who calls me and asks me about the Gators. So the last time I checked, let me check again.
They don't know what over 500 looks like. Now, I'm just saying that's sad and it hurts. You're right.
You're correct. But oh, and I did call you and say lose for lane before. But I'm asking now we'll win for William. Okay. Okay.
Well, I think he'll be around next year and I think it has more to do with his salary. We had a whole conversation last week about what the you looks like of Miami. And if you want to talk about a team in Florida, it's not the one in Gainesville and it's not the one in Tallahassee.
It's the one down south all the way down south. Very true. And I have to agree with you. Well, thank you, Lee. Appreciate you. Thank you.
Appreciate you too, buddy. No doubt about it. The most exciting thing over the weekend from that game, it had nothing to do with the Gators. It had nothing to do with my Bulldogs. Hickey, did you see the police beating the living hell out of those fans in the stands? Oh, oh, I did.
That was and now that they're being investigated. That was interesting to say the least. To say the least intro. Oh, my goodness. I don't think I've ever seen a beat down that I haven't seen.
Maybe I'll just say a beat down like that in a while. You can't even say one way or the other that anybody we don't know. We do not know. We don't know. Hopefully you find out.
Get answers. And whoever's in the wrong, whether it's the fan, whether it's the whoever it is, hopefully justice gets served. But wow. Yeah, that looked like WWE. You had two dudes in uniform.
Just like tag team in a stand. Two cops was whaling on them, dude. And I can tell you as not as a fan who got there and been drunk before.
No, not me. It's wild as hell out in Jacksonville. It is wild.
Wild. And so I won't even speculate as to what happened and what led to those fans being laid out. Maybe they were laid out before the police. Maybe they tried to lay the police out.
We do not know. But I found that to be much more interesting and widespread than anything that took place on the football field between UGA and the Gators down in Jacksonville. If you were down there, hopefully you made it out, you know, without being drunk. How about that? It's the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We're going to take a break. We come back. Speaking of getting beat up. Oh my goodness. If you're a reporter in Philadelphia, you better leave Joel Embiid alone.
Joel Embiid, he's not afraid to put some hands and paws on you. We'll give you an update on what took place there. Monday Night Football is just underway between Kansas City and Tampa Bay. It's the J.R. sport show here with you coast to coast. The Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. The J.R. sport show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. The Buccaneers and Chiefs are underway Monday Night Football.
They don't have a score yet. We'll keep you updated as we continue on. Hey, that noise is actually quite appropriate. You heard the little crash in the background. I'm going to tell you about a car crash going on in Philadelphia right now. It involves a seven foot one basketball player named Joel Embiid. We'll get to that in a second.
The NBA investigating the Philadelphia 76ers, an incident that took place with Joel Embiid because he put his hands on a reporter. Hickey, I always look at the news and check things when we're in the break just to make sure that, hey, you know, nothing funny is going on. And because the Internet is a funny place, there's a lot of things I just pass over. Oh, man, hilarious.
I need to share this with you because I had to Google it to see if it was accurate. If I was being punked. And I'm not. This is not sports related, but I have to share this with you and the listeners.
You ready for this? Very. Man charged with fraud after dating thirty five women at once to get birthday presents. Is that a crime or is that just bad judgment by thirty five different ladies?
This was in Japan, so maybe it is a crime. OK, so he was dated, but had basically what, a new girlfriend, an hour around his birthday. Listen now to according to the this is a few years ago, according to the Tokyo reporter, 39 year old Takashi Miyagawa is suspected of simultaneously having serious relationships with upwards of 30 women with the intention of defrauding them by receiving as many birthday gifts as possible. His real birthday is November 13th.
He's a part time worker in South Japan. In his scheme, he is said to have told his different girlfriends fake birth dates in order to receive birthday presents year round. He reportedly told one woman his birthday was February 22nd, another that was July and a third that it was in April. Police say he's collected approximately a thousand dollars from those three women alone, all in the form of different gifts. Yeah.
One of the girlfriends formed a victim's alliance and filed a complaint against how the victims found out about one another is still unclear. OK, here we go. You know what? This guy deserves a lot of credit. Actually, you know what? He should be celebrated, not jailed. If he has the ability to somehow manage and separate 30 different women to where he doesn't get them confused, to where they all think that they are dating him.
And he pulled this off and pulls us off all year round. You know what? Hat tip to you. Wow. You're here with the scammer.
You just bigged up a scammer. You know, people came get two girls separated. Oh, my God.
And mix them up. This guy is 30, allegedly, of course, and is able to keep his story straight. I mean, think about you have to remember now different birthdays for different people. And so at least over here, mine was in June. I told Leslie over here that's in August. That's a lot to remember.
Well, I'm sure he used to use the notes application. Who am I seeing today? Yeah.
What did I tell him? Oh, my God. Well, he got caught. So somebody found out something and they formed a victim's ally.
Wow. It's a better judgment. It's typically the victims hate each other, right?
True. In this case, they're all ganging up on Takahashi. Yeah, they typically hate each other.
And now they hate him together. Wow. That's impressive. Oh, hey, Hickey, be careful now. OK.
I'm not the scamming, of course, not the scamming. Impressive that you were able to get story straight for 30 different dates. I don't know. That's also isn't he spending money on these dates? There's no way he broke even.
Maybe he did. I don't know. How many dates do you have to go on before someone says, hey, I want to give you, I don't know, a hundred dollars. I don't know. I mean, he got what, a thousand dollars worth of gifts and three from three different people. So let's just say what?
Make it easy math. Three hundred dollars from each. Maybe he's a loser. He's probably friends with Ipe Mizuhara.
You don't know when to stop until you go to jail, right? Maybe that's where Ipe got his money from. This guy's spending. I don't know. He's like, hey, I don't know what it translates into.
Yeah. And he's like, hey, I got to spend one hundred dollars on a dinner. I got to take each woman out to dinner, you know, three or four times just to get a one hundred dollar gift. Hickey, maybe that's why he did 30 women. I don't know. I still does not sound like you're not getting a three hundred dollar gift if you've gone on one date. You're right.
You know, you got to I mean, I take it back, actually. I think he lost money in this big time. He's like Ipe.
He's really like Ipe Mizuhara. Bad with the numbers. Hickey, on Friday, we played show. He's speaking English. Did you hear it?
I did hear him at the the rally give a short speech. He asked the English from here on out. No going back now. That's it. OK. You can't go back now. What are you going back to? He said, what do you say?
Thank you to the Dodger fans. You know, I love you. Something like that. Like, you can't go back.
Hopefully you didn't yawn, because if you did, you would have not you would have missed the whole thing. It was very short lived. What, 10 seconds? If that. That's better than what we've gotten over the past four years, right?
You're not wrong. I mean, you had to hear him speak English is few and far between. Yeah, well, now we know he can speak damn near perfect, right?
You could have you could have a conversation about him. He's been in America, what, six years now? He's been here a long time. Yeah, he's been here a long, long time.
Yeah, about do about do time. Damn, who's this? Somebody got a new a new person got laid out on the Chiefs.
What is this? Oh, my gosh, that is your former pal. Who was that? Me, Cole Hardman.
Oh, my God. The Jets culture center. Oh, the one who helped win the Super Bowl.
That's right. Kansas City Chiefs can't afford to lose anybody. Well, they'll end up winning the Super Bowl with like two two dudes off the street at this point, man. It's just it's Patrick Mahomes at his greatest.
It's the J.R. Sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. We come back on the other side. We will talk about Joel Embiid.
Now, this was no laughing matter. Imagine a seven foot one human being shoving you in the chest. Yeah, I don't think that's a fight that you want to take when I fill you in on what may happen to Joel Embiid, what might happen to the Philadelphia 76ers and why Joel Embiid decided to put his hands on a reporter, a columnist.
We'll get into that on the other side of the break. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. It is the J.R. sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I need you to think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.
Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Now, before we get to a brass tax here, I told you about Joel Embiid, the man who still hasn't played a game for the Philadelphia 76ers. The 76ers heading into tonight have a record of one and four there in Phoenix, Arizona.
Joel Embiid still not scheduled to compete in Phoenix against Durant and Beale and Booker if the three of them are going to play. And we know things came to a head last week when. Well, let's just summarize what's taken place over the summer. Joel Embiid played for Team USA basketball. Got himself, I don't want to say an easy gold medal, but an easier gold medal. Took a couple of weeks off what he did a month or two.
I don't know. Said he lost weight. And then we get to the start of the regular season and we hear from Joel Embiid that I may never play back to backs again.
And yeah, I got to preserve my body. And the six is pretty much co-sign and it just sounds like he's going to be a part time player. And then now he's not available to play in games because of injury management. And everybody's like, wait a minute, are you holding out one of the best players in the game? Are you holding out an MVP? And we know his injury history is just ridiculous, but he can't play at all.
You're just trying to save him until the end of the year. That's that's not fair for anybody. So the NBA, after doing an investigation, ended up finding the Philadelphia 76ers one hundred thousand dollars for not disclosing an injury.
Apparently his knee has been bothering him. And for the life of anybody, nobody knows why they didn't just say that from the get go. And so everybody just, I guess, feels robbed. Like if you're a fan of the 76ers, you should feel robbed. If you have expectations, maybe you should be used to this. But the lack of transparency has just been awful. And so Joel Embiid finally spoke to the media on Friday and he said it is insulting to think or even hear from fans, from the media, that he doesn't want to compete, that he doesn't want to play basketball, that he is just sitting out, especially after all he's done for the city, playing with a broken face and broken hands and risking further injury to his eyesight and just on and on.
That's what he said. And then he specifically called out a reporter who wasn't there, Marcus Hayes, who's a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. And the next day, the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday, they played a game against Memphis and they lost. And after the game, Joel Embiid was in the locker room. And guess who walked in Marcus Hayes, who put a column out and basically talked about how Joel Embiid, some of his main inspirations and into his game and want to play are his son and his brother, who unfortunately his brother passed away years ago after an accident where he was hit while walking to school. Awful, awful, awful, terrible. And so this was used in Marcus Hayes article to pretty much say, hey, you know, Joel Embiid hasn't been out here and for a guy that's been inspired by these circumstances.
Now, what's up? Well, Joel Embiid did not appreciate that. Joel Embiid reportedly said, you can say I suck. You can say whatever you want about me as a player, but don't ever put my dead brother's name in your mouth. Don't talk about my family.
Don't bring them into this. If you want to talk basketball, that's different. Joel Embiid reportedly then shoved them open hand, chest, neck, collarbone. And we got the tweet from Keith Pompeo saying that a reporter was assaulted.
Then he said he was shoved. And then we got a few more details. I mean, let's take a listen to this clip. Someone else who was very well aware of what took place because, well, they were there.
Let's take a listen. Sixes reporter Kyle Newbeck. He talked about what took place between Embiid and that reporter. Listen to this from Philly Sports.
We go to the locker room. Joel is seated in there. Marcus Hayes, who everyone knows, was in on Joel's radar this week. Gave a lengthy quote taking shots at him yesterday.
Marcus was present in the locker room. And the second that Joel realized he was there, got into a verbal back and forth. Obviously, we can't repeat many of the words that were said on the show.
The basic gist of it was basically you can say I suck. You can say whatever you want about me as a player. Don't ever put my dead brother's name in your mouth. Don't talk about my family. Don't bring them into this. You want to talk to me like a man and talk to me about basketball. That's different.
But if you ever talk about my family again, we're going to have real problems. They go kind of back and forth. And at some point, let's say 90 seconds to two minutes into this back and forth. Joel shoves him. Team security steps in.
Players kind of surround the situation and everyone kind of dispersed. Now. Now, Marcus Hayes says. He was then approached and taken to a room to talk with Daryl Morey and Elton Brand, the GM, the president, the guy who were running the shows for the Sixers. And they apologized and they said they got his kind of perspective on what took place. And they said this is not something that that should happen. Well, this is obviously out.
It didn't take long for this to get out to the world. And Joel Embiid, I don't know. Is he going to face a suspension for this? Maybe whenever he's eligible to play, they're going to find him. I guess you got to hit him in the wallet because when does he play basketball? We don't know.
And I'll tell you this. And matter of fact, let's listen to Sean Charron here first. He says that the NBA, they're looking into this situation. Joel Embiid shoved that columnist. And now sources tell me and a league spokesperson tells me that the NBA has commenced an investigation into the situation.
They're aware of the reports and they are starting an investigation. Yeah, look, I think he's going to get hit in the pocket. I think they're going to find Joel Embiid. How you got what is suspending him going to do?
He doesn't play. What are they going to just take away a game check? I don't know. Maybe the suspense that the fine should be worth more than what a game check would be. How about that? Can't put your hands on anybody in any any any condition, really. And Joel Embiid reportedly said as well, you know what, I'll do what I want here. I'll pay with the consequences.
Well, what are you going to pay with your job? Look, is it necessary to evoke his his his his late brother and his child? No, it's it's not. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't. The same times I put my hands on anybody in response. So I don't know.
It's a tough one. If I'm sitting down and I'm Marcus Hayes. I'm not in any or he reportedly tried to apologize. And Joel Embiid is like, I don't want to hear it. This is not the first time you've said something of the sort. I just I don't think it's necessary. I don't. I know Joel Embiid, I think he had a block party to honor his his late brother and what have you right before the season started.
And so this is something he's been public about. But yet to chastise him basketball wise, it's it's not necessary. It seems like it's provocative just to put a line in there about, oh, yeah, well, you said your late brother, you know, inspires you. So why are you not inspired? Then go play. That's that's a little much.
Hickey, what do you think, man? I agree with the second part of what you're saying, where from that, like. There is a line, I feel like, when it comes to criticism from fans, from media, from folks like us, when you talk about a player that I think there is a line you can't cross and it does feel like that article when you read it crossed a line. Like, I just don't get the point of referencing his son or his late brother. It just feels wrong. It does as to why he's not playing. I think it's kind of just a way to take an unnecessary shot.
Needling him. Yeah, right. So I get and I at least honestly respect Embiid from the sense of when he tried to apologize, not really hearing it. Like you said it. You kind of know what you were doing by saying it. Don't now try to pretend like all of a sudden, oh, I didn't mean any will. Like I feel like you do mean some ill will when you go down that road.
That felt personal. Yeah, it's not it's not necessary. Like it's it's not it doesn't take a lot to say, hey, Joel Embiid, you have talked about trying to play in every single game. And now you're leaving everybody high and dry. I think you can do that without invoking his reasons, being his dead brother. Like that's a little that's a little much.
Just say, hey, you've talked about being inspired to play. Done. That's it. So what happened? You're leaving us high and dry.
I don't know. Feels scummy, right? When you involve especially to that level of unfortunately, tragedy and going that level does feel definitely a little scummy for sure. And that's why I don't I really don't feel that strongly about or like feel upset, I guess I should say, about what Embiid did.
Like I kind of feel like honestly, when you write stuff like that, I don't say you're asking for it, but you are really you're poking him in a spot that obviously means a lot and is insanely emotional to him where I feel like emotions. Otherwise, like you do. I think you are kind of asking for when you kind of go down that road, get a seven foot one man's hands straight to you. Now, what happens if you would just punch them? Now, that'd be different now, huh?
Yeah. Yes, I do think a shove compared to a punch is definitely different for sure. He could have killed. If he punched that, he could have killed them. Potentially. Yeah, sure. You ever been punched by a guy seven one?
I have not. And I plan to never, never experience that without without knowing it's coming. Just like here's a punch in the face.
I mean, he'd kill you. I feel like the line sometimes is, I hate when you reference Keith Pompeii, you know, someone's been assaulted. Like I do hate when real life comes into sports because I think there is like things that go on in a game or at a game that just can't mimic in real life.
I don't think you can apply the same rules to just normal society versus a sporting event. But like also like when like if somebody in the street come up to you and was like, oh, JR, like, you know, you said you love your dead mother. Well, why aren't you doing a good job? Like what? Like you punch him right in the face on the street. Right, right, right.
You're like a shove and honestly just be like almost like, you know, you're taking it easy on him. Right. So there's no other place in the world where you could say that about somebody else and like not face physical punishment. Right.
Ah, it's tough. It's really I there's a line, you know, you're right. Sports is so different.
But in most cases, that's that's like in between the lines. Like the NFL. It's it's a physical game. How many punches do we see at an at an NFL? I mean, Puka Nakua punched the guy yesterday. Nobody's being charged with assault, right? You're right about that. Now, now we had two police officers punching up on guys in Jacksonville.
Those guys are being investigated. You know, if if Drake Draymond Green, he had Rudy Gobert in a choke hold. You want to tell Hickey, could Rudy Gobert not press charges if he wanted to?
That's right. He couldn't. That is technically assault.
They'd be calling him more soft than they already do today, though. Which is good for Rudy why he didn't do that. It's so the lines get crazy. But in the locker room, what's to stop Marcus Hayes from filing a lawsuit? Nothing.
Nothing. Maybe. But yeah.
Yeah. Not not that he'd win anything, but nothing. I don't know. Maybe it would be in his favor if he goaded him into getting punched.
He didn't never have to write a column in his life. I don't know if it'd be worth it, but. I don't know. It's tricky. You know, sometimes you just you got to leave criticism. This is always my thing. Stick to who the guy is.
Stay away from the family and all. It's not it's it's not necessary. So I can certainly understand Joel and be being upset. We think about some of the issues that the NBA has faced in the past and trying to tamper down any type of violence between players, between players and fans. And they don't want this now with a member of the media. I think Joel and bead, whenever they finish this investigation, I think he's going to get slapped with a big old fine in the year for the Sixers. Not not starting off all that well. One and four.
I think Paul George. Hopefully he'll be back sooner than later. We'll see what happens there. The Sixers in Phoenix tonight heading into Phoenix with a one and four record. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
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